PoW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an inspection of the camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with a local German girl he had fallen in love with.

A dog named "Leao" sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011

Amazing how a moment in time, frequently a juxtaposition, is so powerful.

Also sometimes powerfully misleading.

One of the very most famous photos of the Vietnam War is of the S. Vietnamese police chief executing a captive with his pistol. The comment below shows it is an example of wartime atrocities against possibly innocent people.

Little known fact:

The police chief was a good friend of the photographer. The guy getting killed had been caught in the act of murdering policemen's families during a raid. There was no question of his guilt. Yet the image no doubt played a significant role in turning world opinion against S. Vietnam.

For the rest of his life the photographer regretted taking and selling that photo.

Would post the photo if I knew how.

As another example, there are many photos of the Nazis camps on the page, but none of the gulag or laogai. Those have been successfully kept out of the media.

I cannot link to the one that I recall.. it was from the era of the Bolshevik revolution and showed what these "social justice" folks did to enemies.

(Though the image was of such poor resolution I still hope that it was fake.)

The guy had been stripped naked and was hanging from a tree limb by one leg (rope attached at the foot) and a long wooden shaft had been inserted deep into him.. he had to be dead by that time.

These revolutionary heroes and mentors of the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radicals (psycho spoiled brats) were the vanguard of the people's paradise the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) want.

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posted on 08/07/2012 12:33:45 PM PDT
by WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)

I just googled it.... One came up with LBJ smiling and a senator winking at him.

I recently watched a quirky documentary called Smash His Camera about Ron Galella who was among the early paparazzi. He’s an interesting character, but he hounded Jackie and her kids mercilessly to the point where she won a suit to keep him at bay.

Anyway, it must have been difficult for her to keep her composure as she did while going through the transition with LBJ.

Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas is overcome with emotion as he embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during the Dallas Veterans Day Commemoration at Dallas City Hall in 2005. Sgt Graunke, who was a member of a Marine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg, and eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq in July of 2004.

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posted on 08/07/2012 1:32:51 PM PDT
by b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)

Jackie was asked why she didn’t change her clothes, had on the same when his body was taken off the plane...such a sweet woman /s she said she wanted everyone to see what they did to her husband, as if we wouldn’t know without her bloody clothes...

dogs are amazing...we were given a dog from one of the guys my husband worked with. About a year and a half later they came to visit Mugzie. When they came in the kids were kinda disappointment cause they figured the dog would greet them. It was like she forgot about the previous owners...it took about 20 minutes then she remembered them and was all over them, giving lots of kisses...the kids were happy as white on rice that she finally remembered them...It just took a while for her to remember...All the pictures I have seen of soldiers and their dogs brings a lump in the throat....

There are too many people that don't deserve a dog by the way they treat them...

Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson was scheduled to play his accordion for President Franklin Roosevelt's enjoyment on April 12, 1945. Instead he played "Going Home" as the President's body was escorted away from the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga.

A Date Which Will Live In Infamy. 1,177 lives were lost when the battleship Arizona exploded during the Pearl Harbor Attack; almost half of the 2,403 killed that day.

Having just gotten home from work, I was asleep when the attack started. My mom woke me up and I turned on the TV just seconds before the second plane hit.

Into The Valley Of Death. Ladder 118 and her six-man crew race across the Brooklyn Bridge just minutes after the second plane hit the World Trade Center. Sadly, all six men would lose their lives that day.

President Reagan less than a second before the madman Hinckley opened fire.

USS Cole limps out of the Port of Aden, Yemen after being struck by a small boat laden with explosives. Seventeen sailors lost their lives that day.

The 2011 Japan Tsunami.

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posted on 08/07/2012 2:08:47 PM PDT
by Stonewall Jackson
("I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.")

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